Helen Hwang is a South Korea-born real estate broker Helen Hwang at Meridian Capital Group. She was previously an executive vice president at Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate firm. She specializes in commercial real estate investment sales in New York, her transactions totaling at over $20 billion.

While at Cushman, Hwang was on the team for what was at the time the most expensive single building sale in US history, the sale of 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.8 billion in 2007, sold by Kushner Companies to Tishman Speyer. Hwang's other major transactions include negotiating Beacon Capital Partners' and Paramount Groups $793.8 million recapitalization at Paramount Plaza in 2011. In 2012, she worked on RXR Realtys $720 million pick up of the 910,000square-foot office building at 450 Lexington Avenue. She was on a team that sold the 1.5 million-square-foot 1 Court Square for $481 million, also in 2012. In 2013, Hwang won second place in the Real Estate Board of New Yorks (REBNY) Most Ingenious Deal of the Year awards for the sale of 88 Leonard Street on behalf of Africa Israel Investments.

The ground lessor's position at the building sold for $400 million. The price represents a going-in yield of 1.15 percent based on contractual ground lease payments through June 2022. The ground lease expires in June 2054.

The package of five Manhattan and five Bronx buildings sold for $158 million, the New York Observer reported. The Manhattan properties are located at 201 and 207 West 11th Street, 229 East 12th Street and 71 and 81 Orchard Street. The Bronx properties are located at 2131 and 2132 Wallace Avenue and 2146, 2162 and 2182 Barnes Avenue.

A 49 percent stake in the rental building closed for $37 million. The transfer of Africa Israel USA's remaining stake, the senior mortgage and the mezzanine loan is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The prices for those components were $17 million, $132 million and $24 million, respectively, according to a previous report by Bloomberg News, for a total cost of about $210 million. The deal is being closed in two stages for accounting purposes, according to David Schwartz, Waterton Associates' co-founder.